Printer-Properties 2.2-alpha

[Jim Vopni]

This type of problem still exists in the latest 2.2 branch code.
I only run into this problem when using specific PCL5 drivers. Examples
of the ones that cause the problem are the Canon GP405 and ImageRunner 600 
drivers.  Other models in these two Canon families have the problem.  There
has
been no problems with the PS drivers or other PCL drivers.

I have looked at the debug logs and I can't see any errors so it seems that
the problem may be due to the driver expecting some side-effect that is
not being performed on the server side of things.  After selecting the
driver
a window pops up with "Unable to change to the specified driver, original
settings
will be restored" (from an NT4 machine) or "Printers settings could not be
saved"
(from  W2K).

I also checked out the Appliance_Head branch and it has the same problem. I
don't
mind helping to try tracking this problem down but I am not sure what to
look for.
I have done some network monitoring to a NT4 server and tried comparing the 
packets with those to the samba server but wasn't able to notice any major
difference. 


...Jim
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Allison [mailto:jeremy at valinux.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 2:18 PM
To: Greg Dickie
Cc: Tim Potter; Matthias Schuendehuette; samba-technical at us5.samba.org
Subject: Re: Printer-Properties 2.2-alpha


On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 01:23:05PM -0500, Greg Dickie wrote:
> 
> 
> In my case it's not exactly clear what is happening. Usually if I go and
> look at the printer propterties on the print server through NN for example
> they are there but they do not seem to propagate to the clients. I also
> have one printer (HP LJ 4SIMXPS) that some clients insist do not have an
> appropriate driver and want to reinstall.
> 
> Overall it seems to work pretty well though.

This weekend we fixed this bug in the 2.2 branch. CVS
update and see if this is fixed for you (it was in all
the testing we were doing at HP).

Jeremy.

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